Monday, 12/4/17

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Okay, I suppose. If you insist:

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Caveat: David French is a skillful lawyer and an excellent pundit. So far as I know, his opinions on football rank right up there with some random guy sitting next to you at a bar.

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I would a thousand times rather have dinner with secular liberals of a certain temperament than with a group of religious conservatives who agreed with me about most things, but who have no sense of humor or irony.

(Rod Dreher)

Some succinct standing advice on recurring themes.

Saturday of an eventful week

  1. Right reason versus the might of force
  2. A puzzler, this is
  3. Roy Moore: Guilty by a Preponderance …
  4. … but of what is he guilty?
  5. Don’t be a schlemiel
  6. Where did all the journos go?
  7. Existential political crises
  8. Rich Spiders, Dessicated Flies
  9. Safer Harbors
  10. I can top that!

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Friday, 11/10/17

 

  1. Are victims “worse sinners”?
  2. Born in the wrong body?
  3. Disney is the Worst
  4. Fatal myths
  5. The Reactionary Mind (and it’s obsessive mirror image)
  6. Making stuff up about other Christian traditions
  7. Why Flannery Wrote
  8. Martyrs then, Confessors now

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Short shorts

A judge after my own heart tells SCOTUS it’s wrong and nonsensical, but then follows the &!!(%##! precedent.

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I can’t endorse policies whose only selling point is that gun owners hate them. Policies that often seem as if they were drafted by people who have encountered guns only as a figure in a briefing book or an image on the news.

(Leah Libresco, I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise.)

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“Liberal education is concerned with the souls of men, and therefore has little or no use for machines … [it] consists in learning to listen to still and small voices and therefore in becoming deaf to loudspeakers.” (Leo Strauss)

There is no epistemological Switzerland. (Via Mars Hill Audio Journal Volume 134)

Some succinct standing advice on recurring themes.